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The conflict of interest is enough on its own to be criminal.

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Tony Fraudy

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I see that several licensees (L2 Diagnostic LLC, Geovax Inc. Illumina Inc, Trellis Bioscience) received HIH SBIR grants the same year or the year before they paid for a "license". The companies received government money to pay for a license fee that went into the pocket of a government "researcher".

URL to search NIH grants https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm

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Do you know how to interpret that license Field?

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BTW in 2009, Flossie filed a patent and assigned it to Immusol Incorporated in San Diego

(Search patents at https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/ for Flossie Wong-Staal with operator "SAME". This is the same year she licensed technology (under NIH) to Trinity Biotech and Abbot Labs. She does not assign a patent to the US DHHS until 2016. Did a SBIR grant to Immusol give NIH the right to license her technology?

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Freakin’ scum. All of them!

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NIH is guilty of crimes previously though only to exist in WWII death camps. Only the death camp operators weren't getting rich off of the death and suffering.

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Thank you for posting this.

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More money laundering. Allocate government money to Entity X (biotech company, weapons manufacturer, pharma company, foreign aid package, etc) then have Entity X return a portion of that allocation to government employee, either directly in cash, or via some form of support/influence. Or reverse the order, same quid pro quo. QED. The Clinton Global Initiative, Biden Crime Family, Ukraine War, Cheney/Halliburton infrastructure projects, C19 vaccines...all the same grift, only the numbers keep getting bigger.

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Regulating something that makes you money, nah, no corruption there. What BS. The gnome is a criminal.

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Split the numbers after L into groups using dash and slash (-/)

You get four IDs (1-4) ID4 is always 23 or blank)

ID1, ID2, ID3 is apparently a licensing agreement number - it is unique to each company.

Each licensing agreement apparently covers multiple technologies. Looking at the date field, Zymeworks has licensed at least 4 technologies (created by multiple scientists). The dates are not a regular interval apart (6 months, year, etc) so they are not renewal dates.

Each Scientist can have multiple licensees - Look at Wong-Staal, Flossie (id 805). She is linked to 50 companies between 2009-2010 ( with lmore after that). Probably the same technology.

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Dollar amounts! HOW MUCH did they sell us out for?

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Democide.

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Hopefully more data that shows how much?

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As government employees those patents and the royalties should belong to the people, not the employee. The idea that we pay someone to enrich themself with our money is preposterous. Give a small one-time bonus and move on.

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America's Executive Agencies are beyond repair. Wipe them all out and start over on as needed basis. Should be "extraordinary need," not just "perhaps might be useful" need for agencies with regulatory authority.

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So how do we get the dollar numbers? Just associating a name with a company and a license number is not terribly interesting.

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